Student Stories
2026 CASE Launch Pad Award
Derek Rhodes, MBA Class of 2027, named winner of the 2026 CASE Launch Pad Award The Launch Pad Award provides $10,000 in unrestricted funding and mentorship to one promising Duke MBA student or team working to address a social or environmental challenge. This year’s winner, Derek Rhodes, brings five years of hands-on experience as founder […]
Five Messages for Anyone Building a Career in Impact
Reflections from the 2026 Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference Erin Worsham, Executive Director of CASEApril 2026 In my work with MBA students and emerging impact leaders, I see a common tension: a commitment to making a difference, paired with uncertainty about how to navigate a rapidly changing field. Expectations of business are evolving. Regulation […]
Lessons Learned in Impact: 2022 Summer Internship Fund Recipients
Summer internships are a valuable time for MBAs to explore and validate their interests. The Fuqua Summer Internship Fund (SIF) enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social impact management without making a significant financial sacrifice – and enables organizations who otherwise could not afford MBA interns to benefit from their experience. We asked […]
2022 Launch Pad Award
Translating lived experience into innovation to increase access for food allergy consumers Eighty nine million Americans avoid buying at least one of the top-9 allergen food products. Of these 89 million, 25 million have a severe or moderate allergy, 7 million have a mild allergy, 32 million have food intolerances. Twenty-five million are indirect avoiders […]
2021 Summer Internship Fund Recipients
September 2021 MBA summer internships are a time of great discovery, validation, and inspiration – and the Fuqua Summer Internship Fund (SIF) enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social sector management without making a significant financial sacrifice. (Related, SIF also enables organizations who otherwise could not afford MBA interns to benefit […]
Class of 2023 CASE Scholars
CASE welcomes the Class of 2023 CASE Scholars! Learn more about our scholars, in their own voice, below. Shreyas Chandra Shekar In India, a farmer commits suicide every 48 minutes. The majority of India’s population (58%, or 800M people), depends on agriculture as the primary income source. Of those individuals, 86% have an average of […]
Announcing 2022 CASE Scholars
Our Class of 2022 CASE Scholars introduce themselves! Jenna Weinberg I believe strongly in harnessing the power of market forces to achieve equity and empower communities. In his “Gospel of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie asserts that inequality is an inevitable cost of progress. I unequivocally reject this view, believing that we can no longer consider philanthropy […]
Unlearning as a Part of MBA Education – Challenging Internalized White Supremacy Culture in Business and Social Impact
July 2020. This post was written by Elizabeth Towell, CASE Fellow and Duke MBA Class of 2021 In the last few months, increasing media attention on police brutality and systemic racism has prompted a long overdue wake-up call for many leaders. We are collectively acknowledging racism baked into institutions, policies, and company cultures, creating an […]
2020 Launch Pad Award
Using technology to increase financial inclusion and build community in Latin America MiLibreta is the winner of the 2020 Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) Launch Pad prize, which awards $10,000 and mentorship to current MBA students with an idea for a social enterprise. MiLibreta is a mobile accounting system that allows small […]
2019 Summer Internship Fund Recipients Feel Lasting Impact of Their Work
December 2019 For Fuqua School of Business Daytime MBA student and CASE Fellow Sarah Burns, 20 short minutes spent in a gym on a Friday night proved to be one of the most deeply impactful parts her summer. That evening, she got the chance to attend a ceremony for six young men celebrating their graduation […]